Articles | Volume 4, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-4-225-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-4-225-2018
Original research article
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26 Sep 2018
Original research article |  | 26 Sep 2018

Challenges of soil carbon sequestration in the NENA region

Talal Darwish, Thérèse Atallah, and Ali Fadel

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This paper is part of the GSP-ITPS effort to produce a global SOC map and update information on C stocks using old and new soil information to assess the potential for enhanced C sequestration in dry land areas of the NENA region. We used the DSMW from FAO-UNESCO (2007), focusing on organic and inorganic content in 0.3 m of topsoil and 0.7 m of subsoil, to discuss the human factors affecting the accumulation of organic C and the fate of inorganic C.